In Conversation: Deco Radio
The most beautiful radios ever made
Art Deco Mumbai Trust is pleased to invite you to participate in the Live Zoom webinar titled ‘In conversation- Deco Radio’, to be held on 14th March, 2021 from 5.00 p.m.- 6.30 p.m. IST.
Join us for this virtual event, to explore the untold story of famous industrial designers who used new materials and mass production in the 1930s and 1940s to create beautiful coloured streamlined radios. This started a trend that brought the world-wide spread of modern Art Deco styling into homes. The advent of the small, mantel or tabletop radio in 1930 gave a huge impetus to the spread of radio, not only allowing multiple sets in the home, but changing the listener from family to individual.
A noted expert on Art Deco radios with one of the leading radio collections in the world, Dr. Peter Sheridan will share his expertise and passion with a visually-captivating illustrated talk featuring some of the rarest and most beautiful radios ever made, followed by an engaging conversation on the Deco influence on Industrial design with Dr. Mustansir Dalvi. The event will conclude with a live Q&A session with the participants.
About the speakers:
Dr. Peter Sheridan:
Dr. Peter Sheridan is an internationally recognized historian, lecturer, collector, author, as well as a committee member of the Art Deco & Modernism Society of Australia and an accredited professional photographer. He has lectured on design at the Art Deco World Congresses and at the College of Fine Arts, New South Wales University. His collection of radios of the 1930s and 40s is considered one of the best in the world. He has also authored three major photographic reference books on design and architecture: Radio Days (2008), Deco Radio (2014), and Sydney Art Deco (2019).
Peter is also a senior Sydney dentist, a Fellow of the International College of Dentists, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Sydney University, and a world expert on Clinical Photography.
Dr. Mustansir Dalvi:
Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir J. J. College of Architecture and Trustee, Art Deco Mumbai Trust. He has post graduate qualifications in Architecture and Indian Aesthetics from the University of Mumbai and has received a PhD Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay in 2017. He has lectured, read and published several papers on architectural education, architectural history and heritage, urban transformation and architectural semiotics. He is the editor of '20th Century Compulsions' (Marg), a collection of writings about early Indian modernist architecture from some of the most important practitioners of the time. His latest book is 'The Past as Present: pedagogical practices in architecture at the Bombay School of Art' (Sir JJ/UDRI).
